Submitted by: Doris Parker
Characteristics of Psychopath
(Sociopath, Anti-social Personality Disorder)
This is a fascinating clinical list. I leave it to you to apply these elements to any politician or talk show host you choose.
- Glibness/superficial charm.
- Grandiose sense of self-worth.
- Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
- Pathological lying
- Conning/manipulative
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Shallow affect
- Callous/lack of empathy
- Parasitic lifestyle
- Poor behavioral controls
- Promiscuous sexual behavior
- Early behavior problems
- Lack of realistic, long-term plans
- Impulsivity
- Irresponsibility
- Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
- Many short-term marital relationships
- Juvenile delinquency
- Revocation of conditional release
- Criminal versatility (Hare, 1986)
(Narcissism also a characteristic)"It
must be remembered that even the most severely and obviously disabled
psychopath presents a technical appearance of sanity, often with high
intellectual capacities and not infrequently succeeds in business or
professional activities for short periods, some for considerable periods
.Although they occasionally appear on casual inspection as successful
members of the community, as able lawyers, executive or physicians, they
do not, it seems, succeed in the sense of finding satisfaction of
fulfillment in their own accomplishments. Nor do they, when the full
story is known, appear to find this in an ordinary activity."
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